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[Max Renn]

Hello,

My /usr keeps filling up. At the moment it is at 91%.

I have tried deleting the log files, but it only brings it back to 81%~

Is there any way to assign more space to a partitition in linux?
Is it safe?

Thank you!

[Slidey]

generally you cant easily grow filesystems (there are some exceptions), but you could try and work out whats taking up all the space and move it to a different bigger partition, and then symlink old to new..

[Max Renn]

OK thank you.

Does this mean I can make a symlink to my logs and domlogs folders??

[Slidey]

sure

say for example you have 1gig space on /var (im guessing you meant /var and not /usr), and 50gig space on /home, you could make /home/logs, and then symlink /var/log to /home/logs so all your stuff would go in there

[Max Renn]

Ah great. Thank you for your help!!